Pistol Shrimp Games

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Developer of Free Stars: Children of Infinity, sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters. | 🎮 | We are Fred Ford and Dan Gerstein @pebby.net | inquiries: contact (at) pistolshrimpgames (dot) com

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Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· 16d

"Money goes brr" meme template. Person on left says "noo get over here and fight me with your own ship" on the right is an ur-quan with little red fighters and text in continuous rows reading "LAUNCH FIGHTERS"

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· 16d

Can't decide who to send into battle? Don't worry, we're providing everything you need to fuel your indecision engine. #screenshotsaturday #godot #gamedev

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· 22d

Does anyone in our network have an inside line to Steam/Valve for developers? Our store assets for Free Stars: Battles in the Beyond, were rejected for having extra text unrelated to the game's title. We asked what extra text they were talking about but have not heard back for over a week.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jul 12

Some work in progress for the match results screen. After being destroyed by Captain Nooowwwwww after a brief comeback, the Cyborg player ragequit, ending the match early. #screenshotsaturday #godot

An in-game menu for Free Stars: Children of Infinity. The lefthand side shows three images of different aliens. Some squirrel things, a weird black cat blob, and a spider. The righthand side has two aliens. A purple suited humanoid, and a green spiny plant monster. In the middle of the image is a "kill feed" showing different captains defeating other ships.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jul 5

Oh I guess happy 🦅independence🦅day🦅 too, enjoy this commemorative fleet. Maybe we can use it to get our independence back.

A collection of different red, white, and blue ships making a vague, shitty looking american flag motif. It's titled with eagle emojis.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jul 5

Choose your fighter!! Preparing the perfect fleet in Children of Infinity. #screenshotsaturday #godot

Menu screen split into two halves with very colorful ships from Free Stars: Children of infinity. The lefthand side has many ships and a stat display with colorful readout of various stats. The righthand side has a small list of ships in a group called "Lovable Lunkers" with a big, checked "Ready" button.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jul 3

Just another day piloting the cat ship.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jun 17

Who's ready to party like it's 1992? The melee pros from The Ur-Quan Masters community are hosting a swan song tournament before our own demo releases. Get your battle stations ready and join them for some good fun! See plantmonster.net/uqm-league-2... for more info.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jun 10

Lord 613 is live on the scene delivering their statement. They're not looking happy, Captain.

An Ur-Quan from Free Stars: Children of Infinity saying "You forget that the consequences of your slop will cause great suffering for your entire people."

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jun 10

Pistol Shrimp releases official statement on the non-use of GenAI in its games, including Free Stars: Children of Infinity.

To put a final, clear pin in it: “AI” sucks. No AI is used in the creation of this game. I have never willingly talked with a chatbot. AI and its slop can see itself out the door and never come back. If AI is just a tool, then it is a tool for hollowing out your own soul. It is Elric’s Stormbringer: it takes while it supposedly gives, and there is nothing left of you afterward. If AI is just a way of getting things done, then maybe we need to examine why we’re doing these things and what purpose they serve in the first place. We need to understand the disingenuous language being pushed in the name of profit and profit alone.

Fuck AI. Go fuck off with that shit.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jun 10

It would! We've (half) got it with an info panel, and we actually can display more information in 1 player practice mode since we have the full screen.

A collection of ship button UI in a game and a stat window below which describes the ship. A text blurb says "The closer the Penetrator is to an opponent, the more crew its song will siphon away."

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jun 8

The head of a bald eagle barely popping up over what is presumably a metal container with spray painted letters reading “FISH”

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jun 1

Happy Pride Month! We are pleased to reveal our terraforming plans in celebration. Please contact your representative to endorse Rainbow World for all Earth.

A picture of a radar scanner from The Ur-Quan Masters. The top text reads "Rainbow World" and has various scientific print-outs. The planet is a rainbow planet with a radar rectangle at the bottom with very rainbow colors. It's very gay.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· May 12

Just another Tuesday Text Tale from the development logs.

Capture of a version control system log message GUI. The commit message reads: "Smaller and cuter Syreen crew in space visuals."

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· May 4

The wharrrgarbl dog with sprinkler jets spraying into its mouth but the text is painted over to say LORRGARBL

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Apr 17

We built a custom Path2D text writer for our project! Should we release it? It's pretty fun.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Apr 6

Dan is back safely and for some reason left this image to post upon return. Presenting this totally objective if not fully comprehensive tier list for how much fun various game development jargon is.

Tier list image ranking various terms
S: duck, bake, skin, spawn
A: polyphony, NURBs, skeleton, mipmap
B: vert, spline, sidechain, bloom, focus
C: PBR, keyframe, albedo
D: shader, texel, ambient occlusion, antialiasing

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Mar 16

New technologies are making untold levels of realism possible. The future of gaming is here with DLSS 5. #juffowup #turgid

DLSS 5 Off/On meme with a Mycon from The Ur-Quan Masters on the left with DLSS 5 off and a crimini mushroom on the right with DLSS 5 on

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Mar 11

Text from deathgenerator.com/#sc2 with a mycon backdrop, reading:
NOBODY KNOWS JUFFO-WUP
LIKE I DO.
I HAVE THE MOST TURGID WORDS.
WHAT? FIBERS?
I HAVEN'T HEARD OF THAT.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Mar 10

We do a little impromptu playtesting for Children of Infinity with a melee match between @shivambhatt.bsky.social and @ravikanodia.bsky.social

Three people surrounding a laptop playing children of infinity. They’re picking ships.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Mar 7

In-game bug reporting? In our Melee demo?! Yes. We look forward to high quality player feedback. #screenshotsaturday #urquan

An in-game screenshot of a user report.
Title: "Shofixti is OP"
Body: "After playing approximately 100 melee matches, I have determined that the Shofixti Scout is OP.
It is not far that I can lose to such a dinky ship piloted by a space rodent.
Please consider increasing the point cost of the Shofixti Scout to the same cost as the Ur-Quan Dreadnought.
Thanks"
Email address: "lord223@pathofnowandforev.er"

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Feb 26

Just another day doing important story research.

Image of three browser tabs for Wikipedia: Flatulence, Skatole, Indole.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Feb 21

Did you know you can play Children of Infinity on the couch with a controller?! Unfortunately the Cyborg opponent does not stop shooting while you take a blurry photo. #screenshotsaturday

Feet kicked up on the bottom of image and a view of a spaceship combat game on a TV

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Feb 7

All of our domestic backers have had their Kickstarter physical rewards shipped as of today. Even the sickos with six sticker sheets!!! Please send photos of what you’re doing with them (or any rewards). International folks next. We only have so much space in our mailroom (Dan’s building lobby).

Several boxes and USPS mail tubs containing hundreds of envelopes.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Feb 2

Over five hundred Collectors Complete Editions of our physical Kickstarter rewards ready to ship out. This represents all of our domestic backers who pledged at this tier and got no add-ons, and it means about half of our backers shipments are done.

A collection of boxes overflowing with hundreds of white bubble mailers with shipping labels taped on them. The location appears to be a kitchen. There is a countertop with a black backpack on it. It has a pin on it which says "Fuck I.C.E."

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jan 10

Lessons in packaging materials: your tolerance still isn't tolerant enough, and it's hard to predict the size of something that doesn't exist yet. We don't want them bent, so hundreds of new shipping envelopes are now on their way! 🥳

A paper bubble mailer packed with stuff showing a slightly bent folded poster.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jan 10

The Star Maps are in!! This means _all_ of our Kickstarter backers can start getting their physical rewards. Our domestic, non-map-receiving backers have had their rewards shipped, and now we can move on to the rest.

An unfolded poster entitled HyperSpace Star Map showing a star chart for the game Free Stars: Children of Infinity. A section of the text in the legend is obscured for your safety.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Jan 2

300 packages going out to our backers tomorrow! Starting off the new year with some very specific ASMR.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Dec 28

A Spathi from Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters saying "Surprise and terror!" The alien is an eyeball on a green stalk with two pink clamping arms.

Pistol Shrimp Games@pistolshrimpgames· Dec 27

Happy #screenshotsaturday, let's celebrate all of our favorite placeholders from 2025. Do you like Reptile Captain Placeholder1, or Slayer Captain Placeholder1? Maybe you like the radar texture cockatiel?! Or white dot! White dot is pretty cool. #godot